Oscar Pistorius blew out a car sunroof with a gun after being pulled over for speeding — because the cop touched the hotheaded paralympian’s firearm, a friend testified at his murder trial Tuesday.
“You can’t just touch another man’s gun,” Darren Fresco recalled his pal telling the cop after the 2012 traffic stop, during which the officer examined the legal weapon.
“He was furious that someone else had touched his gun.”
According to Fresco, Pistorius told the officer: “Now your fingerprints are all over my gun, so if anything happens, you’re going to be liable.” Pistorius, 27, has been charged with premeditated murder in the Feb. 14, 2013, killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, 29. He also faces three firearms charges, including two for allegedly firing a gun in public.
Fresco told the court he was with Pistorius during both alleged public shoot-ups.
Fresco was driving — at more than twice the legal speed limit — when the pair were pulled over in 2012. After the cop finished with them, Pistorius pulled out his gun, the friend said.
“Without prior warning, he shot out the sunroof,” said Fresco.
“I asked him if he was mad!” Fresco said. “He just laughed. I felt like my [left] ear was bleeding.”
Fresco’s testimony about the sunroof shooting contradicted earlier statements from Samantha Taylor, a former Pistorius girlfriend who was also in the car at the time. She earlier told jurors that Fresco laughed when Pistorius fired into the roof.
On the stand, Fresco also testified that he took the blame when Pistorius — playing with Fresco’s Glock 27 .40-caliber pistol under a table at a Johannesburg restaurant — allegedly fired it into the crowded eatery.
Fresco said he’d warned Pistorius that the gun had a bullet in the chamber.
“I knew that he had a big love for weapons … my assumption was that he had competency,” Fresco testified.
Also Tuesday, a forensic pathologist told the court that Steenkamp ate around 1 a.m., roughly two hours before she was killed.
The testimony contradicts Pistorius’ claim that he and Steenkamp went to bed at 10 p.m. that night.
Pistorius has said he woke up at 3 a.m. and mistakenly shot his girlfriend through a locked bathroom door, thinking she was an intruder.
Neighbors, meanwhile, have testified they heard a woman scream before the shots were fired.
Pistorius faces 25 years in South Africa’s notoriously brutal jails if he’s found guilty of premeditated murder.
He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.